Sri Samayeeswarar Temple, Pulicat / Pazhaverkadu, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu.

 16^th March, 2016

After the Lighthouse visit reached the Shiva temple. It was said that the temple was built during the Chozha Period. The renovation is in progress. It was happy to see that materials like lime, etc are used for renovation.

SRI SAMAYEESWARAR TEMPLE – PAZHAVERKADU.

Moolavar    : Sri Samayeeswarar

Consort      : Sri Anandavalli

Some of the important details are as follows….

The temple faces east with Rishabam and Balipeedam outside the sanctum sanctorum. 

Ambal is in a separate temple facing east with two sannadhis on the back side on the left side of the man sanctum sanctorum.

ARCHITECTURE

The temple was built with sanctum, artha mandapam, and maha mandapam. There is a mandapam adjacent to Ambal sannidhi that may be used for Utsavam and the celebration of festivals.

The front entrance to the temple is dilapidated condition with trees grown on it. The roots came up to the ground and formed like another pillar. The roof is supported by wooden pillars and the terrace is of madras-type terrace. The sub sannidhis are without idols and may be kept inside and during our visit, we could not see them.

It is worth looking at the reliefs chiseled on the pillars. In the front mandapam on the ceiling in addition to the regular symbolic representation of reliefs of Solar and lunar eclipse. There are bas-reliefs of lizards and fish with wings. The mandapam beams also have the reliefs of Shiva and Munivars.

THE TEMPLE TIMINGS :

Since one kala pooja is conducted the time of opening is unpredictable.

CONTACT DETAILS :

Sivachariyar Ganesha Gurukkal may be contacted for further details and his mobile number is 8682821200

HOW TO REACH :

Town buses are available from Ponneri, Red Hills to Pazhaverkadu and the temple is about a KM from the Pazhaverkadu bus stop.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE

  The back side of the Ambal temple

 Front side of Ambal temple

 Mandapam may be used for functions 

 Vahana mandapam

Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Ceiling reliefs – Solar and Lunar eclipse with Lizard reliefs 

Beam reliefs 

 Beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

 Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

 The king or the donor who helped to construct the mandapam 

Beam reliefs 

 Kannappar story 

 Sankarar  

  In many places, this relief is found in a monkey eating a jackfruit. 

Entrance arch with Madras terrace-type roof – the vegetation will crumble the structure soon

The person who takes care of the Dutch Cemetery told us there is an Adhi Narayan Temple near the big mosque and also it is too old. We tried our best to reach the temple but could not do so due to the thorny bush and high vegetation growing along the path. Only the Anjaneyar sannadhi is on the roadside. The main renovated and abandoned due to High Court order vimanam can be seen from a long distance.  We tried to see from the back side but could not see due high growth of vegetation.

We do not know for whom Adhi Narayanan is waiting?.

 --- OM SHIVAYA NAMAHA:---

........... To be continued with Dutch Cemetery